Editor's Note: This article was first published in January 2008 and explains how we can understand future events if we know who is who in the Bible. God knew the future of the world when the Bible prophecies were written, and we can understand world events and the coming future when we understand what nations are mentioned in the Bible.
by Robert R. Barney
Russia is rearing it's ugly head. Russia is the Gog
and MaGog in your Bible and will play a role in the future, but Russia
is never going to become the threat to the world that many fear. Both
the King of the North and the King of the South found in Daniel are the
key to understanding future world events. This is not to say that
Russia or China or even other nations will not go to war and be a
menace to the world, but in the total scheme of things, we must watch
events in Europe, and the Middle East. One
man, Herbert W. Armstrong, repeatedly dared to declare—years ahead of
the Soviet Union’s fall—that the USSR was not the power to fear. The
real power to watch, according to him, would be another force: a
ten-nation “United States of Europe” that would form in the years
ahead. He said that Russia would remain a thre at to the world—just not
in the way most Westerners thought. Russia would combine economically
and militarily with China, he predicted, to eventually create a
gargantuan new Asian superpower such as the world has never seen.